Situation Is Grim But We Can Laugh

[noel2499rk]

http://notthenation.com/pages/news/getnews.php?id=902

Distraught Abhisit admits country lacks any semblance of grammatical principles

"BANGKOK – After being shown photographs of the Army’s “Life Firing Zone” signs, posted on the streets of Bangkok Saturday and broadcast around the world, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has admitted that Thailand is a failed state.

Confronted with the evidence by several foreign journalists, the prime minister at first winced and then started shaking his head before unexpectedly losing his cool.

“Life Firing Zone, Life Firing Zone, what does that mean? Many times I told them ‘live’ not ‘life”! Can’t they do anything right? Working in this country is fuc_king miserable,” he said, as several journalists nodded in agreement.

According to foreign correspondent Thomas Fuller, who was only two feet away from Abhsit during the interview, the prime minister then muttered: “ ‘French fried’…what is that? They are fried yes, but why don’t they realize they are called fries?”

One hour later, Abhsit called an abrupt press conference where, citing a complete breakdown in the rules of grammar, he asked the United Nations to intervene.

“For decades, we have been pretending that everything is okay but the reality is very different. We should not live in denial any longer. There is no such thing as Thai-style English or ‘Tinglish’, no sooner than there is such a thing as Thai-style democracy or ‘Thaimocracy’.”

Government spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn then submitted 300 tons of written evidence, including restaurant menus, Ph.D. dissertations, and advertisements for high-end real estate developments, to a UN representative.

“It is clear we lack even basic grammatical principles,” Abhisit said. “There is no order to our words. We cannot put a single English sentence together. Not our leaders, not our teachers, not The Bangkok Post, not The Nation. Especially not The Nation.”

Panitan said that the details of the government’s evidence would be revealed tomorrow in a “life press conference.”"

[kaengk]

Thanks for posting!

[NADTATIDA1]

I would normally think this is very funny,but it is far to serious a situation now.

Thanks for the effort tho!

[TheItaliann]

hysterical.

[neverdie]

it must get very frustrating

[rak sa_ngop]

There are precedents for 'laughter in the face of adversity'. This letter was uncovered a few years ago in UK government files. Google to see the original letter:

H.M. EMBASSY

MOSCOW

Lord Pembroke

The Foreign Office

London

6th April 1943

My Dear Reggie,

In these dark days man tends to look for little shafts of light that spill from Heaven. My days are probably darker than yours, and I need, my God I do, all the light I can get. But I am a decent fellow, and I do not want to be mean and selfish about what little brightness is shed upon me from time to time. So I propose to share with a tiny flash that has illuminated my sombre life and tell you that God has given me a new Turkish colleague whose card tells me that he is called Mustapha Kunt.

We all feel like that, Reggie, now and then, especially when Spring is upon us, but few of us would care to put it on our cards. It takes a Turk to do that.

(Signed)

Sir Archibald Clerk Kerr,

H.M. Ambassador.

[noel2499rk]

There are precedents for 'laughter in the face of adversity'. This letter was uncovered a few years ago in UK government files. Google to see the original letter:

H.M. EMBASSY

MOSCOW

Lord Pembroke

The Foreign Office

London

6th April 1943

My Dear Reggie,

In these dark days man tends to look for little shafts of light that spill from Heaven. My days are probably darker than yours, and I need, my God I do, all the light I can get. But I am a decent fellow, and I do not want to be mean and selfish about what little brightness is shed upon me from time to time. So I propose to share with a tiny flash that has illuminated my sombre life and tell you that God has given me a new Turkish colleague whose card tells me that he is called Mustapha Kunt.

We all feel like that, Reggie, now and then, especially when Spring is upon us, but few of us would care to put it on our cards. It takes a Turk to do that.

(Signed)

Sir Archibald Clerk Kerr,

H.M. Ambassador.

Love it, the upper crust way of writing makes it all the more funny

[JackSterling]

98% of all Thais refuse to speak English after being taught the correct way.. they stil go back to say...

Centon

Peopon

Get the sound... It is just because most are just so freekon brain don..

[endure]

98% of all Thais refuse to speak English after being taught the correct way.. they stil go back to say...

Centon

Peopon

Get the sound... It is just because most are just so freekon brain don..

No, it's because of the way that Thai is spoken. It doesn't have words that end in 'L' in the same way that English doesn't have words that start with 'ng' which makes Thai difficult for English speakers.

[Rinrada]

Forget the grammmer ....just stop the War.......does it need a Verb....?

[JackSterling]

Your right.. BRAIN DEAD is just DEAD and all those poor souls that have been shot in the head by fellow Thai marksmen..

we see them all walking each day.. George Romeros Thailand is coming to be...

[StreetCowboy]

Thank God for Not The Nation.

The Shavers' Weekly of Bangkok.

Let us pray that in these troubled times, people, regardless of the shirt they wear whether it be red, yellow, or black and white vertical stripes, can all get behind the national rugby team when they go to India next month for the Asian Division Two championships

SC